Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKBLMGNOPQR STUVKH VWIXYZA2B2C2D2E2M F2MG2poetry is motion graceful | A |
as a fawn | B |
gentle as a teardrop | C |
strong like the eye | D |
finding peace in a crowded room | E |
we poets tend to think | F |
our words are golden | G |
though emotion speaks too | H |
loudly to be defined | I |
by silence | J |
sometimes after midnight or just before | K |
the dawn | B |
we sit typewriter in hand | L |
pulling loneliness around us | M |
forgetting our lovers or children | G |
who are sleeping | N |
ignoring the weary wariness | O |
of our own logic | P |
to compsoe a poem | Q |
no one understands it | R |
it never says 'love me' for poets are | S |
beyond love | T |
it never says 'accept me' for poems seke not | U |
acceptance but controversy | V |
it only says 'i am' and therefore | K |
i concede that you are too | H |
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a poem is pure energy | V |
horizontally contained | W |
between the mind | I |
of the poet and the ear of the reader | X |
if it does not sing discard the ear | Y |
for poetry is song | Z |
if it does not deligh discard | A2 |
the heart for poetry is joy | B2 |
if it does not inform then close | C2 |
off the brain for it is dead | D2 |
if it cannot heed the insistent message | E2 |
that life is precious | M |
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which is all we poets | F2 |
wrapped in our loneliness | M |
are trying to say | G2 |
Nikki Giovanni
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